The Meaning of Modern Architecture

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the buildings directly as the objects of study, not indirectly, as designs filtered through a philosophical or theoretical discourse. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Wittgenstein House; Chapter 2 An Empathic Description
and Interpretation of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye; Chapter 3 Spatial Esthetics
and Einfühlung (Empathy); Chapter 4 The Inner Construction of Objects and Space;
Chapter 5 Visual Perception and Artistic Judgment; Chapter 6 The Scientific
Treatment of Perception and the Human Nature of the Viewer; Chapter 7 The Word
on the Street; Chapter 8 House Schminke; Chapter 9 Casa del Fascio; Chapter 10
Haus Lange; 

Autoreninfo

Dr Hans R. Morgenthaler began studying art history at the University of Zÿrich, Switzerland. He finished his education at Stanford University in the US with the Ph.D. degree. He is an associate professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado Denver, where he teaches architectural history lecture courses and seminars in 20th-century architectural history and theory. His main research interests lie in 20th-century Central European architecture with a special emphasis on theoretical questions. Within this field, he focuses particularly on interdisciplinary projects, which investigate architecture as a part of culture. He has published articles and books on the career of the German Expressionist architect Erich Mendelsohn, including two chapters in the book Eric Mendelsohn Architect 1887-1953, which was published in 2000. Current projects reach from an effort to update Vitruvius's architectural treatise and an architectural guide to the buildings of Colorado, USA.